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Materials:

Cloisonne Enamels on Bronze Patina And Dore

Size Notes:

Total height; Vases: 105 cm; Bases: 107 cm.

Description:

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Markings:

Each of the bases signed F. BARBEDIENNE on the terrace above the heads of elephants

Literature:

'Édouard Lièvre', Connaissance des Arts, N° 228, Paris, 2004, S. 28 ff. A. McQueen, ‘Power and Patronage : Empress Eugénie et the Musée chinois’, Twenty-first-century Perspectives on Nineteenth-century Art, Newark, 2008, pp. 153-161. P. Thiébaut, ‘Contribution à une histoire du mobilier japonisant: Les Créations de l´Escalier de Cristal’, Revue de l’art, 1989, N° 85, pp. 76-83. R. Rodriguez, Optima Propagare Edouard Lièvre. Créateur de meubles & objets d´art, Paris, 2004.

Provenance:

Acquired by the grand-parents of the present owner in Paris in the early 1930s, thence by descent in the family.